Jean-Marie Le Pen, the man who brought the French far-right off the fringes, a sharp provocateur, obsessed with immigrants and Jews, the one who liked to be called “the Menir”, died today at the age of 96. The founder of the National Front party shocked the French political establishment at the beginning of the 21st century when he unexpectedly reached the second round of the 2002 presidential election, losing to Jacques Chirac. He studied law, fought in Indochina His death found France today remembering the jihadist attack that took place ten years ago against the satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo, and news of his death reached his daughter, Marine Le Pen, the current leader of her father’s party of her, in a stop made by the aircraft she was on in Kenya on her return to Paris from the French overseas territory of Mayotte, in Indian Ocean, where she went to express her solidarity after the devastating passage of […]
Source: News Beast
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